Wednesday, October 7, 2009

This week 6th graders will begin Chapter 2, Water, Climate, and Vegetation. We did not take notes this week, instead we read collectively as a class and answered the following questions:

6th Grade Assignment
We will be reading Chapter 2, Section 1 together. While we are
reading answer the following questions:

1. Streams and rivers carry water back to the ocean during_______.
2. Water goes from the oceans to the air to the ground and back
to the oceans in a process called_______.
3. When the sun's heat turns liquid water into water vapors,
we call it______.
4. The atmosphere holds water in the form of a gas called_____
5. Tiny droplets of water come together to form clouds during____
6. Rain, snow,sleet, and hail are all forms of________.

Define the following: water cycle, water vapor, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, glacier, groundwater, and
aquifer.


Please study these questions in preparation for your quiz on Thursday!!!